1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1715-1

USN-1715-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability

Publication date

5 February 2013

Overview

Keystone could be made to fill server disks with error messages.

Releases

Packages

Details

Dan Prince discovered that Keystone did not properly perform input
validation when handling certain error conditions. An unauthenticated user
could exploit this to cause a denial of service in Keystone API servers via
disk space exhaustion.

Dan Prince discovered that Keystone did not properly perform input
validation when handling certain error conditions. An unauthenticated user
could exploit this to cause a denial of service in Keystone API servers via
disk space exhaustion.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
12.10 quantal python-keystone –  2012.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
12.04 precise python-keystone –  2012.1+stable~20120824-a16a0ab9-0ubuntu2.4

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